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Sauce for a Hare

From The domestic oracle (1826).

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A historical recipe

The domestic oracle, by Murray, Alexander, fl. and University of Leeds. Library (1826).

United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Ingredients 5 ingredients

  1. a pint of cream
  2. a pound of butter
  3. a spoon till
  4. a pint of port wine
  5. a pound of powdered sugar

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Put a pint of cream, and half a pound of butter, into a saucepan, and keep stirring the same with a spoon till the butter is thoroughly melted, and the sauce thickened ;
  2. season it with a little grated nutmeg, and salt to your taste ;
  3. then take up the hare, and pour these ingredients into the dish.
  4. Take a pint of port wine, and a quarter of a pound of powdered sugar, let them simmer over a slow fire about fifteen minutes;
  5. add to them some good gravy, thickened, if approved of, with a piece of butter rolled in flour, or some currant jelly, and serve the sauce up in boats.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Grater
  • Wooden spoon
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Credit

From The domestic oracle (1826), printed page 78, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/b21505433

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.